Sex Week At Yale

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The retirement age is headed to 85, Clinton speaks out about the Prophet Muhammad caricatures and more. David Scherrey writes.
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Yale Talks about Sex

Welcome to Sex Week at Yale, a biennial celebration that has become one of the most provocative campus events in the country. In a lecture hall at Yale’s storied Old Campus, not long after an afternoon astronomy class has cleared out, a middle-aged sex toy saleswoman demonstrates her technique and hands out free products to an eager crowd.

”I want you to close your eyes,” Patty Brisben playfully instructs a young man as she rubs scented lotion into his forearm and, to raucous laughter, reaches for an electric toy and a glove. “Fantasize about having an all-over body massage.”

“To get people’s attention, we do have to do things a little risqué and a little different than other sex education programs,” said junior Dain Lewis, who was inspired to direct Sex Week 2006 after attending the 2004 event.

Yale’s event, which ends Saturday February 25, includes lectures from dating specialists, a sex therapist and a discussion of homosexuality with a former Roman Catholic priest. More provocative sessions include a panel of porn stars and stripping lessons from a Playboy Channel hostess.

I think this is really special – parents are spending $30,000  per year for their kids to learn all about sex.

Retire at Age 85

The age of retirement should be raised to eighty-five by 2050 because of trends in life expectancy, a US biologist has said.

Shripad Tuljapurkar of Stanford University says anti-ageing advances could raise life expectancy by one year each year over the next two decades. That will put a strain on economies around the world if current retirement ages are maintained, he warned.

Dr Tuljapurkar also told a science meeting in St. Louis that 50-year or 75-year mortgages may not be unusual in the future. The doctor was speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in the Missouri city.

”People are going to do things they didn't get round to in their working lives. Current institutions are really not equipped at the moment to deal with such long lives,” he said.

Dr Tuljapurkar found that his projected trends in life expectancy would have profound effects on the economy, lifestyle and population demographics. “It might be possible to go through two mortgages, for example, or even have 50-year or 75-year mortgages.”

In the US, the cost of social security and medical care would almost double if people retired at age sixty-five under Tuljapurkar's scenario. But an increase in the retirement age to 85 would bring costs down to today's levels.
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